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circular, 5-10 mm. in diameter, a set of small buUiform cells on 

 each side and near the mid-nerve ; those of the culm a httle wider, 

 the upper one 1-5 cm. long, sheaths compressed, loose, ligule 

 1-2 mm. long. Panicle erect, dense, sometimes interrupted 

 below, 4-10 cm. long, rays in twos and threes, stout, erect, the 

 longest 3-5 cm, long. Stavii)iatc spikclets compressed, ovate- 

 lanceolate or oval, 4-7 flowered, 10-15 mm. long, Hght green or 

 yellowish; joint of rachilla large, soft, sparingly pubescent, 1.5-2 

 mm. long. Empty glumes oblong-lanceolate, soft-scabrid, ist 

 3-4-5 nerved, 7-10 mm. long, 2d 3-7 nerved, 8-1 1 mm. long; 

 floral glume oval, or oval-lanceolate, with soft hairs at the base 

 and lower part of the keel ; apex notched, awnless, 3- 10 nerved 

 (even on glumes from the same panicle), 8-10 mm. long, palea 

 but very little shorter than its glume, linear, ciliatc on the keels, 

 apex notched; anthers 5 mm. long. Pistillate spikclets have 



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joints of the rachilla shorter, empty glumes and floral glume a 

 little shorter. 



The compressed spikclets and conduplicate leaves point to 

 affuiities with Poa ; the following show affinities with Mclica : 

 large, soft-scabrid, light green or yellowish spikclets, glumes oval, 

 floral glume notched at the apex, not keeled; rachilla large, long 

 and soft, empty glumes usually more than 3 nerved and floral 

 glume often more than 5-7 nerved. 



Poa viacrantha, Vasey.- — Specimens from T. Mowell, sand 

 dunes Tilamook Bay, Oregon ; also from Dr. G. Vasey. 



A Notable Collection of Botanists, 



It will doubtless be of interest to botanists to know that in the 

 Wolff collection of engravings, recently presented to the Syracuse 

 University, many portraits of botanists are included. Of the 

 12,000 portraits of distinguished men of all times and from all 

 lands included in this collection, some 6, GOO have been catalogued. 

 From this catalogue we note the names of the ff)llr)\ving botan- 



ists : 



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Adanson, Alton, Barrelier, CASPAR BaUHIN (6), Micron. 



* Names in sniall caps are represented in the collection in folio size; those in italics 

 in quarto; those in l\oman type are mostly in octavo, but a few are duotlccimo. A 



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number after the name indicates the number of difTerent portraits <:)f the man. 



